TheWayoftheWeb

I’ve been issued with a Twitter challenge – @digitalmaverick and I are competing to reach 2000 followers, with the loser performing a charitable forfeit…
And in the spirit of the challenge, I’ll also give 2000 pence to the charity chosen by my 2000th follower…
So follow www.twitter.com/badgergravling

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It’s easy to compare the current and growing rivalry between Twitter and Plurk to the rivalry experienced by Myspace and Facebook. And with Facebook recently becoming the biggest social network in the world, could Plurk pull the same trick with microblogging?
Well, for starters there are some slight differences in the two rivalries. Although Myspace became [...]

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I don’t know what yet, but Twitter has been down all day so far. And instead of the usual friendly ‘Cat working on the servers’ message, visitors are getting this:

The world, or at least a reasonably large group of twitter fans and geeks, wait with bated breath. I’m surprised they didn’t twitter everyone a warning, [...]

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